Probably just a Kingdom Cyclonus Remold.
Probably just a Kingdom Cyclonus Remold.
It reminds me of the cheaper, simpler Animated toys (the ones with gimmicks), where they compromised the Animated aesthetic for structural integrity around whatever gimmick (be it a legends scale figure, an automorph feature, etc). In the end, we got weird looking figures.
I might buy it still and repaint the face to include a longer nose and better mouth but I'm not sure if I'll buy this. It's definitely the weakest Animated crossover figures in the Legacy line IMO.
I might buy it still and repaint the face to include a longer nose and better mouth but I'm not sure if I'll buy this. It's definitely the weakest Animated crossover figures in the Legacy line IMO.
I loved the jet modes but I hated the thin heads/faces in the figures.
I don't know if I hate Blitzwing or the seeker mold more. Blitzwing had great potential scuppered by terrible QC while the Seeker has terrible proportions all in the service of from what I can tell, the retracting cockpit.
Yeah, it never made sense to me how the 2007 movie line's Automorph gimmick crept into several of the early-wave Animated molds. If anything, that gimmick severely weakened almost all of those molds.
Automorph adds some spectacle when done right. They just didn't have good ideas for what to do with it, and did it anyway.
Yeah, some of them were fantastic. Some felt forced and awkward.
I guess hot off the Unicron trilogy, they felt they needed some kind of line-wide gimmick.
Might also be an attempt to emulate season 1’s more common use of snappy stock footage transformations compared to later seasons.
Might also be an attempt to emulate season 1’s more common use of snappy stock footage transformations compared to later seasons.
That animated Bumblebee doesn't look too bad, but I might just stick with the one that I have.
Transformers Legacy United Bumblebee & Optimus Prime Revealed
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The Animated Bumblebee is part of the third part of Legacy, called Legacy United, along with an Animated Optimus Prime.
I guess they decide that its time to retire those molds for the time being!
Prime looks kind of WEIRD, even for animated style, thou I think I chalk it up to the maskless face, but then to me, Optimus prime without a face mask has always looked a bit weird
I like our Animated boys here. Don’t like that Bees Stingers are hand held but other wise I can deal with his less rounded bot mode. Likewise with Optimus. By now we know not to expect a 1 to 1 recreation, but he looks good in both Bot and Truck form. I just down that they didn’t use the opportunity to use him as Leader class and give him a full Fire truck trailer…. But could we be getting RiD Optimus for that….
I like that animated Optimus Prime, and I need a big Optimus for my Animated collection, as that was one I never got around to getting.
Optimus handles the half-Animated half-G1 face a lot better
So Animated now has
Legacy Bulkhead, Prowl, Bumblebee and Optimus. I'm pretty stunned that Animated Ratchet isn't part of the leaks for next year. (He's not right? I feel like I would remember that.)
You can't come THAT close to doing the whole team and leave one guy out.
-ZacWilliam, I like Strongarm but it's easy for me not to "need" the rest of her team when it's only just her. If they did Fixit, and Sideswipe and Grimlock I'd be needing a Bumblebee to match...
Legacy Bulkhead, Prowl, Bumblebee and Optimus. I'm pretty stunned that Animated Ratchet isn't part of the leaks for next year. (He's not right? I feel like I would remember that.)
You can't come THAT close to doing the whole team and leave one guy out.
-ZacWilliam, I like Strongarm but it's easy for me not to "need" the rest of her team when it's only just her. If they did Fixit, and Sideswipe and Grimlock I'd be needing a Bumblebee to match...
That Optimus is beautiful. As much as I loved Animated, I was poor at the time and had no extra cash for Transformers, so I never got an Optimus other than the Activator, so I'll be happy to have this guy.